Citation:
Abdullah A. Alabdulkarim, Peter D. Ball and Ashutosh Tiwari. Rapid modeling of field maintenance using discrete event simulation. Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference. 11-14 December 2011, S. Jain, R.R. Creasey, J. Himmelspach, K.P. White, and M. Fu, eds.
Abstract:
Discrete event simulation has been applied to a wide range of applications areas
due to its ability to represent stochastic systems over time. Maintenance,
particularly field maintenance, is complex due to the interaction of different
sub-systems of use, maintenance, repair and inventory and the conflicting
demands of minimizing cost and maximizing availability. The area of simulation
of maintenance systems receives little treatment in the literature and tends to
focus on reliability modeling of individual assets. The work presented here
documents research to fill this gap by specifying, creating and testing
simulation functionality to rapidly model field maintenance systems.